Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] was the work " in BNC.
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| 1 | .. made its way below , a hole would burst in the ship ; not that they feared the ship taking fire , but they thought the light was the work of evil spirits ... ’ |
| 2 | This fuelled rumours that the murder was the work of the anti-Semitic Russian nationalist group Pamyat , from which Fr Men ( who had been born a Jew ) reportedly had received threatening letters . |
| 3 | Thieves have stolen thirty thousand pounds worth of silver , including historic racing trophies from a stud farm.Police say the crime was the work of professionals , as only the most valuable solid silver was taken.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 4 | Newspapers received phone calls to the effect that the shooting was the work of the left-wing Dev-Sol group , which also claimed responsibility for killing a policeman in the southern town of Adana on the same day . |
| 5 | The Ulster public , in the main , accepted that the bomb was the work of loyalist extremists . |
| 6 | The alliance was the work of many minds , was shaped by many compromises , and influenced by the course of events in 1948 . |
| 7 | One was the work of Abdulnabi al-Hatash and his Majbari assistant in consultation with the leaders of their dependent groups ; the other was the work of the shaikhs of three of the five Zuwaya sections , who had consulted with Sulaiman Musbah and his brother Bil Qasim and other young men . |
| 8 | The production credits for the band 's first album ‘ T-Ride ’ ( released on Hollywood Records ) go to drummer Eric Valentine , while the songwriting was the work of bassist Arlie . |
| 9 | The book-binding in the library was the work of seven firms . |
| 10 | Lo Cascio was said to have established links with Colombian and Venzuelan drug cartels , while the financial side of the operation was the work of Ulrich Bahl , a German businessman who for some months had been imprisoned in the USA on charges of passing forged banknotes . |
| 11 | Since the church was the work of Pelligrini Tibaldi it means that at one time the two most famous of Milanese architects — Il Pellegrino and L'Alessi — were working in Piazza San Fedele at the same time , the one on the church , and the other on the Palazzo Marino . |
| 12 | However , a government statement issued at the end of a meeting with the Unified Movements and Fronts of Azawad on May 20 declared that both parties were convinced that the attack was the work of " unscrupulous and lawless " people . |
| 13 | The novel , as I should have thought was tolerably well known , first appeared serially in the Revue de Paris ; then came the prosecution for obscenity ; and only after the acquittal was the work published in book form . |
| 14 | The government initially claimed that the killing was the work of the Palestinian Abu Nidal group , sponsored by Iraq , but the Iraqi government news agency strenuously denied involvement . |
| 15 | Nearly every member of the aesthetic Mafia ( numbering no more than five people in the room and two phone bidders ) who saw it believed that the table was the work of the important Philadelphia cabinetmaker Daniel Pabst ( 1826–1910 ) . |